Synopsis

To Sara and Jake, it sounded like a perfect spring break from their post-graduate university work: two weeks in the foothills of the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan. Sara would study and photograph a rare mountain goat called the Markhor, the focus of her zoology dissertation. Fiancé Jake, a graphics arts major, would photograph K2, the most dangerous mountain in the world. Their guide also promised they would be nowhere near all the fighting and killing that was going in in Afghanistan.

Sara and Jake's dream vacation begins to crumble, however, when Sara is nearly arrested as soon as they arrive at the Islamabad airport. Her crime? Wearing shorts and a halter top in a Muslim country. Hours later, their dream turns into a full-fledged nightmare when their guide disappears and their camp is overrun by robed, hostile, and heavily-armed extremists. After murdering Jake, they gang rape Sara and then carry her off to a cold wet cell, in a hidden cave, in a nameless mountain valley. In less than forty-eight hours, a carefree university student is turned into a brutalized sex slave for the Taliban. The question is: how will she escape?